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It rots a writers brain, it cretinises you. You say the same thing

It rots a writers brain, it cretinises you. You say the same thing again and again, and when you do that happily youre well on the way to being a cretin. Or a politician. – John Updike

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The golf swing is like a suitcase into which we are trying to pack one too many things. – John Updike

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The first breath of adultery is the freest after it, constraints aping marriage develop. – John Updike

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Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went. – John Updike

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